17-07-2012, 04:59 PM
Seminar on Internet Voting
Internet Voting.ppt (Size: 341 KB / Downloads: 57)
Voting Innovations & Reforms
Early voting
Vote by mail
Motor voter
Same day registration
If you build it will they vote?
Traugott (Michigan)
Effects on turnout were small, virtually none greater than single digit increases in turnout.
Even smaller or nonexistent effects on changing composition of electorate.
Magleby (BYU)
Introduced notion of “Novelty” in voting reforms.
High participation in vote-by-mail efforts were correlated with high media coverage.
Low participation efforts did not generate media coverage.
Brady (Standford)
Local elections have lower turnout because of low media coverage.
Solop (Northern Arizona University)
Internet voting is associated with high turnout.
Why Internet Voting?
Low voter turnout
Credibility of government -- make the vote more representative
Inefficient elections –The Florida Effect
Greater deliberation
Cost of elections
Direct democracy
Public Demand: ecommerce? Why not epolitics?
DOD Voting Over Internet
Participants: Orange and Okaloosa (Florida), Weber (Utah), Dallas (Texas), South Carolina
Goal: 350 U.S. Military personnel and family members based overseas
Test Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption software (Booz Allen)
Remote voting
Communications
Base newspapers
Company/Division meetings
DOD public affairs
What were the results?